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Show Ancient City is Found on Island Thriving Town Existed on Isle Royale, Lake Superior 1,000 Years Ago. COPPER ONCE MINED THERE Archaeologist Finds Traces of Town After Three Years' Search Will Head Expedition to Make Furr ther Explorations. Duluth, Minn. William P. Ferguson, archaeologist and author, of Franklin, Pa., announced here that he had discovered dis-covered the ruins of an ancient city, inhabited probably 1,000 to 2,000 years ' ago, on Isle Royale, off the north shore of Lake Superior. Isle Royale Is a part of the state of Michigan. Mr. Ferguson announced he would Mr. Ferguson told of his first trip In the region at the outlet of Siski-witt Siski-witt lake, which he said he thought tallied with Oilman's data, but there was no trace of a town. Last year he found a waterfall which he thought was the one mentioned in Oilman's report. Because of the lateness of the season, however, the explorer was unable un-able to finish his work, he said, and so made a third trip this season with a party of five assistants, but their first efforts failed to locate the town. At length Mr. Ferguson concluded that a ridge, If located In the vicinity, would answer a certain description of the topography of the country as given giv-en by the writer of a half century ago. He continued his search, he said, and finally was rewarded by finding what he considers unmistakable traces of a town between Hay bay and the waterfall water-fall on the south side of Isle Royale. return next summer with another expedition ex-pedition to conduct further explorations explora-tions of the city, which was situated, he said, on the southerly side of the island and consisted of a series of semi-underground dwellings. Copper Mined There Long Ago. "Most every one knows, " Mr. Ferguson Fer-guson said In making known his discovery, dis-covery, "that copper was mined on Isle Royale many years ago on land now covered with pine trees. The island is-land is covered with traces of these mines, and yet almost nothing has been done to explore the workings. "No one has found any of the remains re-mains of the old miners, although there are many stories of finding tempered copper weapons. I have found several stone hammers, each supplied with thongs, and have been interested for the last three years in establishing reports re-ports that a town existed on the south of the island. "A writer named Oilman was authority au-thority for this report fifty years ago, but his description and location were so vague that it was impossible for any one to make anything out of them." |
